Astounding Stories, May, 1931
By Various
Classic work by Various.
Table of Contents
_There Comes a New World_ [Illustration: _Behind them a red ship was falling--falling free!_] [Sidenote: Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new satellite to lure t...
_Escape_ Two days, while a cold sun peeped above an icy horizon! Two days of driving, eager work on the installation of massive motors--yet motors so light that one man could lift...
_The Space Terror_ The control room was glassed in on all sides. The thick triple lenses were free from clouding, and the glasses between them kept out the biting cold of the heig...
_The Rescue in Space_ How often are the great things of life submerged beneath the trivial. The vast reaches of space that must be traversed; the unknown world that awaited them o...
_The "Dark Moon"_ They were seated in the cabin of the man-made meteor that the brain of Harkness had conceived--two men and a girl. And they stared at one another unsmilingly, wi...
_Trapped_ Walter Harkness, piloting his ship to a slow, safe landing on a new world, had watched his instruments with care. He had seen the outer pressure build up to that of the ...
_In the Labyrinth_ Spent and shaken, the three passed onward into the cave. Harkness searched his pockets for his neolite flash; found it--a tiny pencil with a tip of glass--and t...
_The Half-Men_ "The Valley of the Fires," Harkness was to call it later, and shorten it again to "Fire Valley." The misty smokes of a thousand fires rose skyward from the lava bed...
_The Throwers of Thunder_ It is doubtful if Walter Harkness heard or consciously saw that fleeing tribe. He saw only the glorious sunlight and its sparkling reflection upon the st...
"_But Awfully Dumb...._" Harkness would never forget the helpless body in his arms, nor the tender look that came slowly to the opened eyes that gazed so steadily into his. And ye...
"_Nothing to Be Done_" Unmoving, their ship seemed, through the long hours. Yet there were lights that passed swiftly and unnoticed, and the unending thunder from the stern gave a...
_The Murder of Major Atwood_ "We are late," Tina whispered. It was that night in 1777 when she, Larry and Harl stepped from their Time-traveling cage; and again I am picturing the...
_Migul--Mechanism Almost Human_ Mary Atwood and I lay on the metal grid floor of the largest Time-cage. The giant mechanism which had captured us sat at the instrument table. Outs...
_Events Engraven on the Scroll of Time_ Before continuing the thread of my narrative--the vast sweep through Time which presently we were to witness--I feel that there are some me...
_Back to the Beginning of Time_ As Mary Atwood and I sat chained to the floor of the Time-cage, with Migul the Robot guarding us, I felt that we could not escape. This mechanical ...
_A Billion Years in An Hour!_ I saw at first, from the window of the cage, nothing more than an area of gray blur. I stared, and it appeared to be shifting, crawling, slowly tossi...
_In the Burned Forest_ Tugh came limping forward. His cloak hung askew upon his thick shoulders, one of which was much higher than the other, with the massive head set low between...